Wesley
Wesley massaged his forehead as Serafina babbled happily to herself, playing with something or other Cordelia had bought. Connor was skulking about the lobby, eyeing the little girl suspiciously and fingering his crossbow. "No, you can't shoot Serafina, Connor," Wesley sighed. Serafina giggled and stuck her tongue out at Connor.
"So, kner! Unka Wes *loves* ME best! I'm cuter then 'oo!" Serafina dropped her doll and walked over to Wesley. "Up," she commanded, hands over her head.
"What do you say?" Wesley asked, hiding his smile as Connor stormed out of the hotel to wreak havoc on the demon population of LA. The destroyer, phazed by a little girl.
"Please?"
"Good girl. Up you come then. I'm going to call some nice ladies," he told her as he sat her on his knee and flipped through the address book for the Halliwells's number.
"'Es?" She fiddled with a pen, and Wesley slipped a sheet of paper under her hand. "Tank 'oo."
"You're welcome," Wesley said absently as he dialled the Halliwells's number. He could check up on Faith while he was at it, too. He waited for someone to pick up, Serafina quietly singing to herself in Ancient Egyptian while he did. She had a sweet high little girl's voice.
Leo W and Halliwells
Leo healed Paige as quickly as he could, his hands glowing as he held them over her.
Paige's eyes opened slowly and Phoebe and Piper smiled. "Oh thank god," Phoebe breathed.
Paige sat up. "What happened?"
The phone started to ring so Piper jumped up. "Explain it to her," she said to Phoebe and Leo, and ran for the phone.
"Hello?" Piper said in a strained voice.
Wesley
"Hello, this is Wesley," he said pleasantly. Serafina chose that moment in time to take an interest in what he was doing.
"What's that?" She pointed at the phone, shifting so she was closer to it.
"It's called a phone," he told her.
"Hmm." Serafina wrinkled her nose.
"I was calling to inquire about a spell."
Piper
"Oh... hey Wesley, it's Piper."
Piper stuck her head around the corner to see how Paige was doing.
"What kind of spell?"
Wesley
"Soul restoration," Wesley said, after a worried glance at Serafina. She was to all appearances happily scribbling away.
"Souls are yicky! Mama said so!" She announced loudly.
"Do you want your daddy back?" Wesley put the phone away from his face. She looked at him and beamed.
"Yes!"
"Then let me do my work."
The pout started. A tiny little lip quivered and brown eyes gradually grew shiny with tears. "You don't *love* me anymore!"
"I do love you Serafina. Look, could you just hold on a minute while I try to assure Angel's new daughter that yes, her Uncle Wesley loves her very much and that I'm doing this so she gets her father back? Thank you." Serafina was still gazing at him with big anime eyes as he spoke briefly into the phone.
Serafina snatched up the phone, grinning. "Hello!" She sang down the line. Wesley very carefully massaged his forehead.
"Can I have that back please, Serafina?"
"Nup!" She giggled in delight.
"Serafina, please..."
Halliwells
"Wesley? Wesley?" Piper asked.
Phoebe and Paige came into the hallway and looked at her in curiousity.
Piper put her hand over the phone. "Wesley wants us to do a spell. A soul restoration for Angelus."
Paige folded her arms. "Why don't we just kill him? Insane son of a bitch."
"Because Paige, if we kill him, we'll never find Faith," Phoebe replied, as their front door opened and Xander walked in.
"Sorry, the door was open and I was wondering... Paige! You're awake!" Xander said and hugged Paige.
"Yep, it's good news all round. Well... except we still can't find Faith," Paige replied.
"Well, I'm on that."
Wesley
"Hellooooooo!" Serafina said in her best 'I'm so adorable, don't you want to hug me and give me stuff?' voice.
"Serafina, please give me back that phone so I can talk to the nice lady who's going to help me get back your daddy," Wesley said in long suffering tones.
She just grinned at him. "Love me?"
"Yes, I love you." Wesley couldn't help but smile.
"Good, cos everybody should luff me. Can you help me get my daddy back? Cos Unka Wes says dat he needed you to help," Serafina chattered into the phone.
Piper, Phoebe and Xander
"Yes, could you put him back on now, please?" Piper asked patiently waiting to hear Wesley again.
Xander went into the living room and sat on the couch, Phoebe following behind him.
"Do you think you can find her?" Phoebe asked. "We've already tried scrying, but nothing."
"I think... I could probably find her. I've had a few leads. And I'm looking into them."
Wesley
"Okies." Serafina handed back the phone to Wesley. He took it with a sigh.
"Of course, she gives it back when you tell her to...moving on. If we found Angelus, could you re-ensoul him? Have you had any hints of where he could be?"
Piper
"We could re-ensoul him, we've been looking up different ways to do it in the Book of Shadows. The only problem is..."
Piper bit her lip.
"We don't know where he is. He poisoned Paige, and we've only just gotten her back, and Faith is missing. Xander's looking into places, but so far, nothing has come up."
Wesley
"Oh dear," Wesley said softly. "I'm so sorry to hear that he's hurt Paige. He most likely has Faith as well. Oh, my word. What scrying spells have you tried to find him?"
"I can find him," Serafina said almost to herself.
"You what?" Wesley refocused.
"I can find him. It's in the blood." She twisted her head and smiled at him, displaying little fangs and gold flickering across her brown eyes. "I could."
Piper
"We've tried all the scrying spells we know... but there's must be a magickal seal on where he is. Which isn't completely unbelievable... he took Paige's powers from her, and we're not sure how to get them back yet."
Piper sighed.
"Which means, without the power of three, we don't have a good chance of doing the spell. We figure when we find Faith, we'll find Paige's powers."
Wesley
"Serafina says she could find him. It's in the blood, apparently...but I don't know know if I want to take her down there. Angelus did hurt Connor rather badly last time, and Serafina is considerably smaller and younger then Connor." Welsey drummed his fingers on the desk for a moment, other hand balancing Serafina on his knees. "Have you tried to use the arrow of Athena spell to release Paige's powers? If it's in a breakable container...it would work. I know it worked the last time Angel lost his soul and we couldn't get it back."
Piper
Piper wrote the spell down. "Arrow of Athena? We'll get right onto that."
She sighed. "This would be considerably easier if we had Faith. But then if we had her, this wouldn't be an issue. We're gonna keep scrying, and do some locator spells, but in the meantime, Xander's going to keep trying."
Wesley
"Yes, quite..." Wesley frowned slightly. "Well, I think I have some books Xander doesn't have access to. I can look here as well..."
Piper and Paige
"Oh that would be good... we're going insane over here," Piper said, taking a deep breath. "We're kinda new at the magickal blocks."
"And I hate living without my power," Paige put in.
Wesley
While Wesley was listening to Piper and Paige, Serafina had slipped off his lap and crawled off somewhere. "Glad to help. Angelus is a diffcult opponent to face..." Wesley's voice trailed off as he watched Serafina open the weapons cabinet (Why didn't they have a lock on that?) and take out a crossbow. "GOOD LORD!" Wesley dropped the phone and jumped the desk as little fingers curled around the trigger. "SERAFINA!"
She looked up, beamed, then started to wail as he took the crossbow out of her hands and carefully uncocked it. Replacing it in the cupboard. He picked her up as she cried big salty tears, and kicked her feet in a tantrum. "MEANIE!"
"Serafina, would you please calm down!" Unable to placate her, he put her on the floor, where she immediately started to throw the mother of all tantrums. "Serafina got into the weapons cabinet. She's upset I took her shiny lethal toy from her," he explained over her enraged screaming and energetic kicking and pounding. "I don't suppose you know anything about children? I know a little bit less then nothing..."
Halliwells
Piper and Paige looked at each other and grinned.
"Candy," Piper said to Wesley. "Just give her a lolly or something, she'll probably calm down. At least, that's what I used to do to Phoebe. When she started crying, I gave her candy."
"I heard that!" Phoebe called from the living room.
"Good!" Piper called back. She put the phone back up to her ear. "We'll look into the spells, thanks for the help. Good luck with Serafina."
Wesley
"I think I'll need it," Wesley said dryly as Serafina's screams showed no signs of abating. "It wouldn't be so bad if she wasn't so sweet and adorable looking...Angelus should just give up. There's a new demon with the face of an angel now, and her pout brings strong men to their knees."
Piper and Xander
Piper giggled.
"Well, we'll tell him when we find him."
"DAMMIT!" Xander cried from the living room, followed immediately with the sound of something breaking.
"Uh, that sounded bad," Piper murmured. "Is there anything else? I'm thinking all hell is about to break loose over here. Once we find Angelus, we'll give you a heads up."
Wesley
"Of course," Wesley agreed. "I'll let you go, and I'll look for some infomation here as well. I better go before she does some serious damage to the floor. Bye."
Halliwells and Xander
"Thanks," Piper said. "Bye."
She hung up and went into the living room. "Right, what broke?"
"You tell her," Phoebe urged.
"No, she's your sister," Xander argued.
"But she won't kill you," Phoebe hissed.
Xander rolled his eyes. "The crystal broke. See, there was... um..."
Piper shook her head. "Never mind, we have bigger things to worry about rather than Grams's antique crystal goblet."
Phoebe breathed a sigh of relief.
"But once we have Faith back, Pheebs, you are in for a lecture."
"Dammit."